Charles Coulson Rich

21 August 1809–17 November 1883 (Age 74)
Big Bone, Boone, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of Charles Coulson

When Charles Coulson Rich was born on 21 August 1809, in Big Bone, Boone, Kentucky, United States, his father, Joseph Rich, was 23 and his mother, Nancy O'Neal, was 27. He married Sarah De Armon Pea on 11 February 1838, in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1862 and lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 17 November 1883, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Coulson Rich
1809–1883
Sarah Jane Peck
1825–1893
Marriage: 15 January 1846
Hyrum Smith Rich
1846–1924
Henrietta Rich
1849–1853
Orson Rich
1851–1852
Orissa Elizabeth Rich
1851–1854
Samantha Rich
1853–1866
Henry Benjamin Rich
1855–1893
Lorenzo Ether Rich
1858–1893
Pheobe Jane Rich
1860–1879
Julia Ann Rich
1863–1865
Wilford Woodruff Rich
1866–1940
Walter Peck Rich
1869–1943

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    15 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
    • Children

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    World Events (8)

    1812
    Age 3
    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
    1815
    Age 6
    Historical Boundaries: 1815: Boone, Kentucky, United States
    1830 · The Second Great Awakening
    Age 21
    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    Name Meaning

    English: nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich, wealthy’, a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to ancient Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’.English: from the Middle English personal name Rich, a pet form of any of the post-Conquest names beginning in Rich-, such as Richer and especially Richard . Compare Rick .English: either a topographic name from Middle English riche(Old English ric) ‘stream’, signifying one who lived beside a stream, as at Glynde Reach (Sussex), or perhaps a habitational name from the (now lost) village of Riche (Lincolnshire).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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    Life Sketch of John Holladay (1798-1862)

    John Holladay was born on 10 March 1798, the third child and second son of Daniel Holladay and his second wife, Keziah Rebecca Terry, in Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA. (Daniel's first wife …

    Sources (156)

    • Charles Colson Rich in entry for Ezra Clark Rich, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
    • Maria Anderson in household of Charles Rich, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Chas C Rich in entry for Morgan Jesse Rich and Mary Olive King, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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